BRITISH STATISTICS.
Falling Birth Rate; Deaths Increase. INFANTILE MORTALITY LOW. (Australian Press Assn. —United Service.) LONDON, August 28. The British vital statistics for 1927 show that the births totalled 166 per 10,000. This is the lowest on record. The previous lowest rate was 177 in the last year of the war (1918). The deaths in 1927 totalled 123 per 10.000. This is the highest figure since 1922. However, the infantile death-rate (seven per cent), with one exception, equalled the lowest recorded. Deaths from cancer in the period constituted a new record and deaths from influenza were the highest since the great epidemic of 1918-19. The number of suicides in 1927 equalled the record. A special table indicates an alarming increase in suicides by means of a certain disinfectant coal gas. Deaths due to motor-cycle accideuts totalled 940, compared with 543 In 1923. Deaths from motor car accidents for the same years were 1292 and 957.
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Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 204, 29 August 1928, Page 7
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